The World of Man

The message this book carries is a new vision of man. It attempts to trace the origin of life from the beginning in the evolutionary process in which man too appeared. It was the evolving molecules which were ceaselessly engaged in the act of assembling, dissolving and reassembling ceaselessly At a stage when the structure of assembled molecules evolved into presells and eventually into cells in the inevitable process of the under current absolute action of evolution. The assembly of molecules at certain stage of evolutionary process emerged into single cells. The single cells as pointed out possessed all the organic and cognitive qualities, the power and function, but in a small way, which evolved to great maturity in the multicellular and highly evolved animals, especially man.

The cognitive evolution in the animal and plant forms of life is the result of the way they procured energy that is life. The easy way was to capture such energy from the sun which poured out such energy in great abundance. The plants developed chlorophyll and by the photosynthetic method produced energy. A plant positions itself to spread out its green leaves to capture sun light which is everywhere. A plant does not go in search of food. It does not need awareness to become aware of food material. The cognitive devices did not develop in the plant for want of use. The animal on the other hand needs to go in search of food materials, because animal lived on the readily formed energy procured and provided by plants and other animals. They have to become aware of food materials and go in search of them. They developed devices to become aware of objects, circumstances other animals etc. Thus in the animals cognitive devices appeared. In the world of animals cognitive capacity appeared and developed.

The book takes up man and follows him. In man the cognitive power which began with the inception of life has developed powerful nervous system , the central nervous system which not only governs all the parts of the body but it remembers, recalls, creates and constructs objects of direct perception, it also creates abstract objects and reconstruct and assemble them. The perceptive vision appeared that it brought the knowledge of the reality as it is, giving the conviction that what it knew was the naked reality. On this basis of natural conviction reason flourished and religions. Man was happily living in the world of his perception, which is the earth in the center of the universe, holding the skies with the sun, the moon and the stars that circling the earth and man at the center of all. But there was the fundamental issue of the incompleteness of the world his perception. The issue was: How does the whole thing come into being. Who or what makes the universe, the sun and the stars, the plants that flowers and bear sweet tasting fruits, animals and man? A Super and super natural Power was found necessary to complete the incomplete world the power of natural one track cognitive vision presented. .

In the course of many centuries human cognitive power enriched and embellished building rational exposition, in the defense and support of religions. Each religion expanded with rational support from its followers and ardent devotees. Religions thrived and expanded so did reason and philosophic systems. The situation continued for many thousands of years.

The attempt in the book continuing with man, tracing the silent evolutionary result of human development through the centuries of natural cognitive vision of the worlds .The unperceived process of evolution was carrying its absolutely necessary process of progress (evolving) all these many millennia. Abstract rational sciences flourished. The world was floating on the calm ocean of intellectual satisfaction of being convinced that it knew all that was knowable. The credit of smashing this conviction and the new epoch may be attributed to Nicholas Copernicus who established, against the undisputed conviction of earth being the center of everything and the sun circled the earth, that it is the earth that circles the sun and that the earth is not the center of the universe. Copernicus’ finding not only established (against the ridicules of the entire world) that the earth goes round the sun , but equally he established that our perceptive vision is not the grasping of the reality but a power of the organic unit suited to the needs of the unit. In the beginning of the new era continued with great scientific explosion by the great scientists like Kepler and Galileo and carried on by eminent scientists with the arrival of Isaac Newton. With Isaac Newton the period of classical science ended. But it had provided the world with man-made instruments and devices to look into the world of perception. A new perceptive vision was being born. The nineteen and the twentieth centuries which had the advantage of the new vision saw a totally new world. The universe was seen in the natural cognitive vision as made up of different realities of particular nature as trees are different from animals whose natures are seen and known as of totally different essence and substance. But in the new scientific vision the essence is one and the same reality- the atoms. The entire universe is of the same substance the atoms. Meantime the great fact of evolution was detected by the great Charles Darwin and other scientists. Evolution, a process that was going on forever was so simply hidden to our natural cognitive vision. How insignificant is our cognitive power! The new vision extended further. Scientific instruments and scientists’ skills could spit the atom itself. The scientific vision presented a new world beyond the natural perceptive. Atom was divided which led to the world of quanta energy form of matter. Matter and energy are one and the same reality, the expression of the Absolute which is unknown and unknowable. All are the expression of the Absolute which is action that is evolution. The direct cognitive power of man which is the interaction between the cognitive device and a rejected ray from the object.

The scientific perception has revealed the world totally is different from the world of natural perception where the world is seen as a place of endless variety of essentially different things as inanimate things like the maintains, rivers the stars and planets trees and animals. All with unbridgeable individual nature or essence. Against this vision of natural perception the scientific of vision presents a diametrically opposite vision of the world. In the scientific world everything is seen fashioned out of the same one thing already at the level of atoms. The oneness is expressed more intensely in the quanta, wave-particle oneness of energy and matter the same one reality. E=mc2. The entire being is the absolute. The absolute in unknowable. The Absolute is action that is evolution. The universes and all that are within them are expressions of the acting and therefore evolving Absolute. It is already due that the human family come together to acknowledge the Absolute that is real. The human family has suffered enough violence and wars, suffering and slaughters in the name of religions, when will the human family realize the endless suffering in the name of religions is the most contrary to the human spirits?

-- Francis Borgia